Having designed things, I know it is important to understand what your user base needs and wants, rather than assume it is at all like you. That's why I don't imagine my habits bear upon helping Alizée get auditions with the general public or sell them CDs <i>et cetera</i>.
That said, I was happy to e-mail the broadcast network Scruffydog named.
In recent months I came across some interesting writing concerning listening habits and music selling which I now share with you.
CNet <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-10389788-27.html">writes</a> on a small-sample study of US adult media consumption habits. I was surprised at how many people it claims still listen to radio, and how few listen to a digital audio player. This is not for serious want of the latter:
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ZDNet <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=22862">writes</a> briefly about music sales by vendor and medium.
Personally, for what it's worth, now there is so much good talk available online on demand (BookTV, Research Channel, <i>etc</i>.), plus the ability to have machine-readable text spoken via TTS, that I probably listen to vastly less music, especially sung music, than I ever have in anything like normal times. When I want to listen to music of which I don't own copies, I turn to <a href="http://www.pandora.com">Pandora</a>. or sometimes YouTube. It was through the latter that I discovered the Ajaccio girl in <a href="http://www.google.com/trends?q=Alizee&ctab=0&geo=us&geor=all&date=all&so rt=0">early 2006</a> and landed up buying her stuff - the first I've purchased since 1991, when I bought a couple hundred consigned discount CDs as a group. (I hope Alizée is honored by her ability to ravish my virtually "revirginated" medium keep!)
A large majority of US households now have broadband Internet access, so I would think YouTube is a great way for them to sample music which a friend or other trusted source recommends for audition. So why not e-mail your friends the links to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k30jNZcul2E"><i>Les Collines</i></a> and the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Une-Enfant-Du-Siecle-Alizee/dp/B00383YC2S/">Amazon order page</a> for <i>Une Enfant Du Siècle</i>?
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